One of the most important things that a bookmaker can get people to do is log in to their online account. As soon as they do that, there is an increased chance that they will then place a bet, perhaps one that they were intending to place or perhaps one that they’ve decided to place after browsing the site.
Regardless, if a bookie can get you logged in, then half of the battle for them taking your money is done for them, which is why many choose to offer competitions and games that are usually free to play, because they know from there you are likely to place a wager.
Current Offers
Answer the four question on the selected football matches correctly and you could win £100 in cash with consolation prizes of free Bet Builder bets for 2 and 3 correct answers. One entry per customer for each game week.
Select a horse to be placed in the seven designated horse races and if all seven finish in the places, you could win a share of £10,000. One entry per customer per game.
Each day, customers can log in to the Rewards Grabber for a chance to win cash, free spins, bingo tickets or Coral Coins. One play per customer per day.
Pick the correct score in the three selected matches and if you get all three right you could win a share of the £10,000 cash pool. You could also get a free £2 Bet Builder for two correct predictions and 500 LadBucks for one correct prediction. One entry and prize per player per week.
On each English Premier League matchday you could win a share of £50,000 cash by predicting the correct scores of the six chosen matches. You could also win £250 in cash for five correct scores with free bets for between two and four correct predictions. One entry per customer per round.
On selected football matchdays, log in and answer the six questions and if you get all six correct, you could win a share of £5,000 in cash. There are also free bet and free spin consolation prize for between 0 and 5 correct answers.
Each day, BetVictor gives customers the chance to win cash drops, free bets, free spins and other offers by spinning their Prize Wheel. This is free to play, one prize per customer per day.
Free to Enter Comps With Cash Prizes
If you know what to look for, you can usually find a wealth of different competitions that are free to enter, but that give you the opportunity to win cash or other prizes. How each of them works will differ from bookmaker to bookmaker, but the one thing that they all have in common is that they don’t cost you anything to take part but offer the opportunity to win somthing. If you’re looking for a chance to increase your coffers without having to stake any of your own money, then this is the perfect way to do it, albeit with zero guarantee that you’ll be able to actually win anything.
The first thing to do is to work out which sort of thing works best for your personality. Some bookies offer you the chance to win something for free and all you’ve got to do is press a button that ‘spins a wheel’ or some such thing. From there, what you do or don’t win will depend on how the algorithm works in much the same way as it would if you were using a slot machine. Alternatively, you can opt for one of the prediction games, whereby you have to work out the likely scoreline of a select number of football games, say, and you’ll win if you get your predictions all correct.
There’s No Guarantee of Success
Perhaps the most important thing to bear in mind when it comes to these sorts of free competitions put forward by bookmakers is that there is zero guarantee of success. Even if they say that there will be a guaranteed winner of any specific competition, it doesn’t mean that you will be guaranteed to win anything. Instead, you could enter every single bookmaker’s free-to-play competition and do nothing except waste your own time, with nothing to show for it once all is said and done and your time playing the games is over and done with.
That doesn’t mean that none of them are worth entering, of course. You don’t have any guarantee of winning a bet that you place and yet we all still choose to place them. You need to think of it as something that might be rewarding but could also prove to be a hobby that you don’t get anything out of other than the time spent taking part. There is obviously a touch more of a chance of shifting the odds in your favour by playing the games that are about predicting things, given you can research possible outcomes, but even then it remains extremely unlikely you’ll enjoy success.
Is it Worth It?
The obvious question to ask when it comes to such competitions is whether or not it’s worth it. On the face of it, you might think it is because the whole point is that they’re free to enter. The downside, though, is that they can be time-consuming and ultimately prove to be entirely fruitless. With that in mind, only you will know how much time you’ve got available to dedicate to enter such competitions whenever they come up. Some of them will be available to take part in every day, whilst others will be once a week or limited to during the football season, say, making it easier.
It is clearly down to personal choice. It is also important to remember that you’re not locking yourself into anything. That is to say, just because you’ve entered a competition run by a bookmaker once doesn’t mean that you have to enter time and time again, instead being able to just decide when you want to take part if you have the free time to do so. Given the fact that all you have to invest in order to take part is time rather than finances, it is the opportunity to do something that might pay off, might not, but that remains without any kind of financial obligation on your end.
Don’t Get Sucked In to Placing Bets
The entire reason why bookmakers launch such free-to-enter competitions is in order to persuade people to log in to their betting accounts with the hope that they will then end up placing some bets that they had no intention of placing. The best way to take advantage of these incentives is to avoid placing any kind of bets whilst you’re logged in to play the free competitions, unless you were going to place the bet anyway. Given the number of bookies you need to log in to in order to play all of the free competitions, it can soon end up being a costly exercise.
Good bettors know that the only way to place bets sensibly is to do so having done as much research as possible. If you aren’t doing that when you place your bets, then you’re as good as giving your money to your bookmaker of choice, which entirely negates the point of the competition being free-to-enter in the first place. The very best decision that you can make is to only log in to your betting account for the purpose of taking part in the competition, then logging out immediately. Alternatively, if you are going to place some bets, only bet on things you were planning to bet on anyway and have done your research into.